What results are achieved by every successful sign? To identify, to communicate, and to create the image you desire. It is hard to accomplish all three in a single sign.
Good
signs incorporate
design and marketing decisions creating the message, look, colors, sign types, sizes, quantities, etc. to create the required impact. They draw attention to themselves.
Quoting U. S.
Small Business Administration research, 89% of businesses
that fail do so because of improper signs!
Stated differently, good signs give a business an almost 90% probability of success.
Will ANY business decision you make affect you more? If you stop and think about it, you can’t even risk buying an “average” sign; you need “exceptional” signs.
The trouble with improper or average signs is that you will never know how many potential customers they’ve driven away, or not attracted, by simply looking inappropriate. Your success or failure may be determined the day your sign is installed!
Fortunately, we are not a sign company, sign broker, or sign store. We are a sign manufacturer. We engineer exceptional signs for our customers.
It is the
most targeted advertising you can do according to the
U. S. Small Business Administration
(SBA), which also
states that 85% of a businesses sales usually come from
within a 5 mile radius. Your sign constantly
advertises your business to a potential customer who
frequents the area where your business is located.
If a sign
costs you money it is not doing its job. It should effectively advertise your
company and earn you money.
As examples,
how important would a free-standing
pylon sign
be to your business? McDonald's says that simply
changing a
Monument sign
in front of one of their stores to a pylon sign increases
their store's business 15%. A Whataburger that was
unhappy with their new store's volume removed their
brand-new pylon sign and installed one 40% larger and
taller. The store's volume increased 23% the day
after installation, and sales have exceeded the previous
months for more than 5 years now.
Purchasing the right
signs for the job helps a business survive by bringing
higher sales volume.
The
importance of signs in helping a business to survive was
recently underscored when the
Small Business Development
Center (SBDC), with their NxLeveL for Entrepreneurs
training program, which is available in 40 states, added
an entire week to their program to present more deeply
"…the importance of signs and their impact on a business…"
We
can help, so long as your landlord and the City understand
the importance of good signs and allow you to install
signs that will help your business. Unfortunately
this isn't always true. Choose your location(s)
wisely (and receive your landlord's approval of your
signs package BEFORE you sign your lease.)
City Signs Ordinances, and Landlord Lease Restrictions,
can doom a business.
Most City Sign Ordinances can be accessed by visiting our "Permits
& Approvals" page, after accessing our "Installation
& Service" page,
if you care to learn about them without our help. However we have worked with them for so long we know most
of them by heart.
Remember
the axiom "Location, Location, Location!" The
supreme importance of "location" is the numbers of
potential customers that will see your signs...and be able
to read and understand them. Very important
design
and marketing considerations.
If you are
located in the Dallas/Fort Worth "Metroplex" in Texas the
Texas Department of Transportation has probably counted
traffic in front of your new location. Go to
www.dfwinfo.com/trans/data/tcins
to see how many vehicles will see your signs every day!
Other regions have similar information available.
Surprisingly 30% of
traffic on almost all business streets occurs when it is
dark; people see your sign only if it is lighted when it
is dark out, including on dark days when everyone else's
sign is lighted.
Equally amazing, 25% of a business street's traffic does not normally travel on that street.
With 18.6% of the
entire US population moving each year, your sign will be
constantly seen by MANY potentially new customers.
Texas' Success Story
The Dallas/Fort Worth "Metroplex" continues as the
fastest growing large city area in the United States, year-after-year. It is the fourth
fastest growing such area in the world. As fast as in China or India!
Dr. Mine Yucel, Vice President and Senior Economist for the Federal Reserve Bank in Dallas, reports that more
people are working in Texas than ever before. All effects of The Great Recession have been overcome here, except for a lingering very slight decline in housing prices.
North Texas is expected to
gain over 4,000,000 new residents in just the next 4 years!
The business economy HERE remains healthy! Well over
100 new businesses are started in just the D/FW Metroplex every week.
And, because the large "National"
companies have placed expansion plans on "hold"
world-wide and Texas-wide due to their over-all
problems, lots of opportunities exist for local and
regional businesses.
Don't let the "doom-n-gloomers"
talk you out of being successful. This is the best time ever to
start a new business in North Texas and Northeast Texas.
Using Our Website to Learn About Signs and Create a Successful Image.
Your sign
forms that very important "first impression" your
potential customer has of your business. Your sign must always look nearly as good as it looked the day it was installed so that you survive; don't give potential customers a worsening impression of your business as your sign ages.
Click
our "Sign
Types" tab to the left, then pick any of our
products and discover how we make each sign to last;
including the use of CNC manufacturing, rust-proof metal, structural-steel
frames, high-end automotive paint, high-impact plastics, and most importantly,
sophisticated
protective coatings. All our signs include these many hidden features, critically important to you but often ignored by competitors so they can make more money. We even add self-cleaning properties.
Unless we are doing other work for a customer we do not make banners or do vinyl lettering, even though we have the equipment to do so. Our skills are better utilized in other areas. We recommend
www.PromotionalFlair.com.
We champion
brighter, energy-saving
EnergyStar Signs™ solutions that save our
customers money while
protecting our environment. No matter what type of signs you are considering, please explore our "Lighting Choices" tab for that product, with its own Energy Savings" tabs. In fact many of our unique sign designs can easily and efficiently be Solar Powered!
We will
give your company an edge and help make you money.
We have lots of experience.
Click our "Design
& Marketing" tab to the left to learn how we
can help you - for free - design signs that will meet
City, State and Landlord sign restrictions, and your needs.
We even furnish a "Grand
Opening Package" featuring a free 4' by 5' parking lot "Coming Soon" free-standing portable sign to attract attention while your sign is being constructed.
Please use and enjoy this
387 page website with over
2,000 stored images, the largest information resource about signs on the internet, created so you can learn about all types of signs and how you can control their affect on your image.
We believe that if you're a knowledgeable purchaser there's a real good chance you'll become our customer.
Sign Cost Information
We
sell our signs FACTORY-DIRECT, WHOLESALE to the public.
Each Sign Type, above and on the "Sign
Types" page, has a "Cost" tab under its
"Pricing" tab that lists general budget pricing for that
type of sign.
But, please, contact us to develop an exact plan to meet
your particular needs - for free (see our "Design
& Marketing" page.)
Our professional staff will usually have exact quotations, and exact scale drawings of your signs installed on your building or property ready for you the same day we meet with you. (Much faster than the 2 1/2 week average in our industry.) Contact us NOW...Please!
If you are planning for the future, please bookmark our
website as a "Favorite" so you can find us when you are
ready.
Thank you. This is what we do to buy groceries.
You May Qualify for a "BETTER THAN FREE™" Sign
Dependent on your location, Signs Manufacturing may be able to offer you INCOME from a FREE pole, pylon, monument sign, or electronic message center.
Contact us for exciting details!
Five (5) Different Ways to Purchase Signs
Choose from Five (5) different ways
to pay.
Cash, Credit Cards, Conserve You Nest Egg™ 0% 15-month financing, Signs on Time™ Conventional Lease/Purchasing or our Accelerated Pay as You Grow Lease/Purchasing™.
Click on the "Cost"
tab on the "Sign
Types" page for details.
The Obama Tax Compromise
Equipment and machinery purchased in 2012 will be 50% deductible during 2012, the balance depreciated.
An initial amount of $125,000 in purchases is fully deductible.
Signs are business equipment.
Fraud Protection
“After being ripped-off by one sign company, who took my several-thousand-dollar deposit but never delivered my sign, I was nervous. I’m sure glad I met you guys!”
Paul Lewis, Jubilee Mortgage
Signs Manufacturing is insured,
registered, licensed and bonded per all City and State
regulations, and carries product liability and worker's compensation/accident insurances to protect our customers, and their customers. Both are rare among sign companies.
We even offer our customers free coverage on a $2,000,000 insurance policy providing Deposit Insurance if we were to default. (Visit our "Cost"
tab on the "Sign
Types" page for details on all of the above.)
We've got you covered!
"...I had to hound Vital ***** (a sign broker) for weeks and weeks, then I had to call ******** (the manufacturer) to finally get a hold of Vital *****. I thought Vital ***** was taking my deposit money and running. When he asked for the second deposit I was kind of hesitant based on my experience with him. I did some research on Vital ***** and there were judgments in Dallas County, civil judgments for Vital ***** taking money and not putting up a sign! But the manufacturer said I had to deal with him, and he already had a great deal of my money.
The installation company he subcontracted with, City *****, finally did show up and after giving them another $30,000 the sign was installed but City ***** didn't pay Vital *****, I guess, his "fair cut" of it.
Vital ***** was initially mad at City ***** and then he was mad at me, so he came and took the controller out of the sign so now it doesn't even work! I tried to go back to ******** (the manufacturer), and gave them all of the documentation and they said it's between me and Vital *****, they won't do anything about it. I'm never dealing any way but directly with a manufacturer again!"
Mr. Sinkler, Freedom Wash
Why Buy Factory-Direct, from a State-Licensed Company?
TURN-KEY Design, Manufacturing, Installation, and Service
Why not buy from a Sign Dealer (also called a Sign Broker or a Sign Store?)
There are literally hundreds of them.
Would you give a car dealer $10,000 and tell him to buy you the best car
he can for the money, sight unseen (or from a drawing?) Don't you think you would get the car that made him
the most?
Do you think you
could meet your needs asking for the cheapest car he can buy?
Why would a sign dealer (sign broker or sign store) be any different? Remember, they are
merely buying a sign from a manufacturer to resell to you, usually to resemble a
drawing, making the most money they can.
You need to know
ALL of the details on how your sign will be manufactured, and how it will be installed.
It needs to meet YOUR needs, not the seller's profit goals. What is he
telling the manufacturer you don't need so he can make more money?
Believing "...a sign is a sign" gets you a Yugo instead of a Cadillac.
Remember the Yugo? They didn't last very long, either.
Also, most sign dealers, sign brokers and sign stores cannot legally install
or service an electric sign. Ask to see their license.
Ask to see a manufacturer's license also. A few are not licensed to do
electrical work, either, they also have to hire other companies to install the
signs they make.
Now, who provides the warranty? The manufacturer, the installer, the
salesman, anyone? If the sign was installed illegally
do you think they'll honor their warranty? Did they REALLY obtain your
City sign permit? Is the sign even safe?
As a large, UL listed manufacturer, our name is on all our signs. Just like you,
we can't afford to have a bad sign destroy our business. We have to care,
particularly with our LIFETIME warranty.
If you wonder if a sign-seller can legally install and
service electrical signs through-out Texas go to
http://www.license.state.tx.us/LicenseSearch/,
enter "Electricians" in the "Inquire by License Type" box and the name of the
sign business or person in the "Inquire by Name" box. If they
are not licensed they can not.
So someone can sell you signs and not be licensed to install or service them. You may have to have this done. But unless the electrical signs
you buy are "listed" (U.L. usually) they won't
be allowed to be installed in Texas, a State of Texas Consumer Protection Safety Law designed to insure that signs are safe to use, with a few local city
ordinance exceptions. It is not illegal to sell them to you, however. Buy carefully.
"I had a ****-a-**** (sign company) right across the street … that store's out of business now … I found out they hired some other company to build and install our sign and they did a really #@%&&$ job, the thing has never lit right. ****-a-**** Corporate won't do anything, they say the closed store was an independent franchise, and the sign builder/installer won't fix it, they say we weren't their customer. I need you to come out, tell me what it will cost to get the thing working properly and get it fixed."
Chris Jennings, Jimmy Johns
Guaranteed Highest
Quality...
Guaranteed Lowest
Price™
As
detailed on the pages that follow, everything
will be done to make your sign look better, and last
longer...Guaranteed.
Signs
Manufacturing Corporation also guarantees that our price
will be the lowest price you can obtain on the products
described in this website; now or anytime during the next
90 days.
If you are
offered a lower price by someone else we will match that
lower price PLUS give you 10% of the difference.
Free Factory Tour
Come and see the array of equipment
and tools, and the facility dedicated to making good
signs.
Contact a sales consultant to arrange a
plant tour, or just stop by. Click our "Contact
Us" tab for location and contact
details.
State Licensed Sign Installation and Sign Service
We are a full-service sign company.
We
provide
sign site surveys,
sign permits,
sign installation
and
sign maintenance
services for electrical and non-electrical signs for our customers as well as other sign
companies. We
provide this work in Dallas, Fort Worth (DFW), and ALL of
North Texas and Northeast Texas.
State Sign and Electrical License Numbers: TECL17503, TSCL18015, TSCL18016.
Among our other installation and service personnel we currently employ 10 State licensed sign electricians, and 4 State licensed general electricians.
All our technicians are also
Quality Certified Signs™ certified. (Click the "Installation
& Service" tab for details.)
Area Codes 214, 254, 430, 469, 682, 817, 903, 940, and
972.
Serving Collin, Cook,
Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Fannin, Franklin, Grayson,
Henderson, Hill, Hood, Hopkins, Hunt, Johnson, Kaufman,
Lamar, Navarro, Parker, Rockwall, Somervell, Tarrant,
Titus, Van Zandt, Wood, and Wise Counties in Texas.
We also have signs in 43 different
states, and 6 other nations.
Recent Projects
Here are a few
projects that we have JUST completed:
E-Mail Specials & Newsletter Blog
Occasionally Signs Manufacturing will
have excess production on certain sign types, or discounts on installation
or service exceeding our standard LIFETIME WARRANTY 20% discount.
Or, we have information about Signs Manufacturing Corporation, or the sign industry, we would like to share.
If you would like to be informed of these specials by email, click on the
"Newsletter & Blog
" tab to the left, and send us your contact information or subscribe to our RSS feed.
If you are not old enough to have piloted a business during the late 1970's, and depending on what our future brings, you might appreciate our Blog about inflation. It is written from the knowledge-base of our senior Watson, who did, and another of the family members, who has a SMU degree in finance.
The Hottest New Signs
Three
new sign-types will separate you from the crowd.
Have you noticed that the signs that catch your eye most often are LED displays? Signs like LED billboard displays.
Gaining attention gains you customers.
You can gain the advantages of LED faces on your new signs.
These signs are better-looking, cost less, and use less energy.
Also go to our "SpectraLites™ & LED" page under Channel Letter Lighting Choices to learn about back-lighted Channel Letter faces that automatically change colors. There is a video so you can see them in action.
Patents Pending.
BIG Business Booster
There is no question that LED electronic message centers are the business signage communication wave of the future. Local advertising has never been cheaper because of them.
Every business has a need to promote special events, sales, sponsorships, etc.; either at their business location and/or at local sports events, parades, church and school events.
If your business is not located where you can have a permanent messaging sign, or you need to advertise at multiple locations (like the kid's soccer game), the question is, HOW?
This question has been answered with “The LED Sled™” pictured here, Signs Manufacturing’s new portable self-powered LED electronic message center and video display.
Local businesses have never before been able to be so creative, to think so far outside the box to gain a competitive advertising advantage.
“To rent, or to own, THAT is the question.” (sorry Shakespeare.) How often do you need to promote your business?
If you are a multi-location business you need to own one of these! Some location ALWAYS has special needs or opportunities. Or a new store under construction.
If you’re not in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex you absolutely need to own one because you are too far away for us to rent you one!
We are the "greenest"
sign company in Texas. Click the "Our
Environment" tab on our "About
Us" page to learn about our environmental
efforts.
Just for fun, go to our "Not-so-Good
Signs" tab on our "Design
& Marketing" page to witness Signs
Manufacturing's "The Not-so-Good Signs, the Bad, Ugly,
Stupid & Dumb Signs" Awards Contest! You can also view the world's most expensive (to purchase and to feed) animated message center.
What results are achieved by every successful sign? To identify, to communicate, and to create the image you desire. It is hard to accomplish all three in a single sign.
The SBA says
that an
If you are
located in the Dallas/Fort Worth "Metroplex" in Texas the
Texas Department of Transportation has probably counted
traffic in front of your new location. Go to
people are working in Texas than ever before. All effects of The Great Recession have been overcome here, except for a lingering very slight decline in housing prices.
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There is no question that LED electronic message centers are the business signage communication wave of the future. Local advertising has never been cheaper because of them.
If your business is not located where you can have a permanent messaging sign, or you need to advertise at multiple locations (like the kid's soccer game), the question is, HOW?
